Description: Black chalk, point of brush in brown, brown wash, reworked with the brush in grey, 102 x 88 mm. Verso: Calligraphic exercises, pen and brown ink. Ruled framing line in black ink, interrupted at the boy’s chin. No watermark. Chain lines: 27 mm. Inscribed in the lower left corner, Rubens, and numbered in the lower right corner, 1724 (Sparre), in pen and brown ink. Mark of the Royal Collection (Lugt 1638).

The attribution is based on the similarity with the previous drawing, a light transparent sketch with the point of the brush, strengthened by a slightly darker wash. The reworking in various shades of grey seems to be by another hand and is partly rather clumsy, particularly in the areas of the back of the head, the neck and under the cheek; the work on the profile is more subtle. [Magnusson, Dutch Drawings no. 118]

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